Poverty Quotes - Page 33

• The way - the principle way that human beings had gotten out of extreme poverty is free trade.

  Charles Koch

  Way, Principles, Trade

  Source: freebeacon.com

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• In fact, everything that emanates from source emanates from a source of well-being. When we take on this ego consciousness, when we take on hate rather than love in our hearts, we create all of this divisiveness, and we create all of the problems, the struggles, the difficulties, the diseases, the poverty.

  Wayne Dyer

  Hate, Struggle, Heart

  "The Power of Intention with Dr. Wayne Dyer". Interview with Tim Miejan, www.edgemagazine.net. September 1, 2004.

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• Whatever your vocation is, you are destined to reign in life because Jesus is Lord of your life. When you reign in life, you reign over sin, you reign over the powers of darkness, and you reign over depression, over poverty, over every curse, and over every sickness and disease. You REIGN over the devil and all his devices!

  Joseph Prince

  Jesus, Darkness, Devil

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• The oil is a gift bestowed by God on the Arab nation, to use after centuries of poverty, backwardness and servitude - in raising its living standards, developing its economic, social and cultural conditions, and building up its own power to meet the challenges and conspiracies besetting it.

  Saddam Hussein

  Building Up, Oil, Challenges

  "President Saddam Hussein's Speech on National Day", Baghdad : Dar al-Ma'mun for Translation and Pub, 1981.

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• During that time period all of our tribes were suffering extremely from poverty and neglect. And the reason I say neglect is because the U.S. Government was neglecting its true responsibilities they agreed to in exchange for our land and resources. What I and others attempted to do, and in essence we did, was bring attention to our sovereign rights, the rights we had retained when the treaties were made.

  Leonard Peltier

  Responsibility, Land, Essence

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  People, Wealth, Ashamed

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• As long as there is poverty there will be gods.

  Will Durant

  Long

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The Lessons of History”

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• Anecdote: The East End seemed to be in the grip of yet another economic crisis. ... By the winter of 1933, an army of the unemployed gathered daily outside the dock gates, desperate for a day or 2 paid work. .... There was no cushion, no disaster fund, no stashed savings, no government handouts no syrup that could sweeten the bitter pill of poverty.

  Melanie McGrath

  Army, Winter, Government

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• Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

  May Sarton

  Rich, Nothingness

  May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1973”, p.156, Open Road Media

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• At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the toil and improve the condition of the laborer; that the enormous increase in the power of producing wealth would make real poverty a thing of the past... From Progress and Poverty, To those who, seeing the vice and misery that spring from the unequal distribution of wealth and privilege, feel the possibility of a higher social state and would strive for its attainment.

  Henry George

  Spring, Real, Past

  "Progress and Poverty". Book by Henry George, 1879.

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• Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World.'

  Peter Blair Henry

  Country, Class, People

  Peter Blair Henry, Peter Henry (2013). “Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth”, p.6, Basic Books

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• Sometimes the facts of the crime are so distracting - there's been some tragic murder or horrific incident, and people aren't required to think as carefully and thoughtfully, and directly, about this legacy of racial inequality and structural poverty. And what it's contributing to these wrongful convictions.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Thinking, People, Legacy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Finally I got to the point where I said, I'd like to start a project where we can actually talk about race and poverty, not through the lens of a particular case, but much more broadly.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Race, Lenses, Projects

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When we talk about gender pay gaps in the United States, and if you look at women without children, they earn 96 cents for every dollar that a man is earning, while for mothers it is about 76 cents. That's nearly 25 percent less. For single mothers, the situation is even worse. One third of them are living in poverty or just on the edge of poverty. This is an unacceptable situation.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Mother, Children, Men

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm enthralled by the national yearning that the Russians had during the 50s and 60s. The whole century was pretty rough for them. They suffered genocide, war, poverty, and half the population was sent to labor camps. But they were determined to get into space first.

  George Meyer

  War, Space, Population

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I never want to get to that level of poverty where taking a bath has to be a hot-pot experience.

  Questlove

  Hot, Levels, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We have climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from human power and transportation infrastructure. At the same time, we have 2 billion people who live in energy poverty.

  Ramez Naam

  People, Energy, Climate

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• With two years till the nomination, both [Joe] Biden and [Hillary] Clinton are positioning themselves to be the Democratic nominee. And are they stressing their experience, their ideas, their excellent hair? No. They've been talking about their poverty.

  Peter Sagal

  Stress, Hair, Talking

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• The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary citizens enjoy access to information that formerly was available only to elites and nation-states. One consequence of this change is that citizens have become acutely conscious of environmental destruction, entrenched poverty, health catastrophes, human rights abuses, failing education systems, and escalating violence. Another consequence is that people possess powerful communication tools to coordinate efforts to attack those problems.

  David Bornstein

  Education, Powerful, Communication

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• Even if you can't get rid of the heat, as long as you can get rid of bother with the heat, your body is always on a cool terrace. Even if you can't get rid of poverty, as long as you can get rid of the sadness of poverty, your mind always lives in a comfortable abode.

  Zicheng Hong

  Sadness, Long, Mind

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• The problem the world faces today is that only one-third of the world's population lives in decent circumstances, while half the population of the world lives on one or two dollars a day. And even as we have this poverty and backwardness, we are facing a global environmental crisis. We need developmental models that will take into account the specific and unique position of each country and at the same time will address the environmental crisis.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Unique, Two

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• Even today, if my title hadn't been given back to me and I was in such poverty where I had to go and find a job, I would have done that.

  Muhammad Ali

  Jobs, Titles, Done

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• Read a textbook. It will tell you. These are the things for instance on the African continent that will contribute to immune deficiency, various tropical diseases because of poor infrastructure, general levels of poverty don’t get treated. Syphilis untreated or not properly treated, which as it happens is a big problem as I hear, gets treated, the symptoms disappear but in fact… it … that impacts on the immune system. You’ve got to deal with these things.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Impact, Syphilis, Facts

  Interview with Lionel Barber, www.ft.com. April 3, 2007.

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• The first issue that compelled me was a very strange split between India being highly development scientifically (we were the third biggest scientific manpower in the world then) and yet at the same time struggling with amazing poverty. The linear equation that says that modern science equals progress and the reduction of poverty did not apply to India. It wasn't working.

  Vandana Shiva

  Struggle, Issues, Progress

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• If you can't go to secondary school, the boys get to go and the girls don't, you're locked into a cycle of poverty, because you don't have a chance.

  Melinda Gates

  Girl, School, Boys

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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